"owner of the stable, John Logan (Kevin Costner), turns out to be more interesting than the riding itself and the third woman practices her guitar, shuns the owner of the studio where she records, and hangs out with her hunk cousin Steve, the fourth roommate in the house. Sizzle Beach, U.S.A. Sizzle Beach, U.S.A, also known as Malibu Hot Summer, is an independent film directed by Richard Brander and starring Robert Acey, Kevin Costner, Terry Congie, Leslie Brander and Roselyn Royce. It was not released until 1986 after Costner became a celebrity. His biography says it was filmed between 1978"
"days. He took work which allowed him to develop his acting skills via tuition, including working on fishing boats, as a truck driver, and giving tours of stars' Hollywood homes to support the couple while he also attended auditions. Costner made his film debut in the film ""Sizzle Beach, U.S.A."" (known originally as ""Hot Malibu Summer""). Filmed in the winter of 1978–79, the film was not released until 1981 and re-released in 1986. The release complications and lack of documentation lead many to believe that Costner's debut was in ""The Touch"" also known as (""Stacy's Knights""), in 1983 with Eve"
"Point Break Point Break is a 1991 American buddy cop action crime thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty and Gary Busey. The title refers to the surfing term ""point break,"" where a wave breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline. Reeves stars as rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah, who is investigating a string of bank robberies possibly being committed by surfers. Johnny goes undercover to infiltrate the surfing community and develops a complex friendship with Bodhi (Swayze), the charismatic leader of a gang of surfers. The film"
"his hand at smuggling drugs, hitchhiked across North America and enjoyed the sexual revolution of the 1960s. He lost his co-ownership of The Cabale and moved to Los Angeles in 1967, where he briefly worked as a carpenter and started a rock band. He met a business-savvy young man named Bill Osco, who became the manager of Ziehm's short-lived band. Osco wanted to get involved with the movie business, so he and Ziehm founded Graffiti Productions and started making porn loops. Ziehm would direct and shoot the films, Osco would produce and sell them. Since pornography, despite still being illegal,"
"concept needed to satisfactorily resolve the technical concerns. Perhaps more serious were the intellectual property disputes between Hemdale Film Corporation, which owned the franchise and stymied efforts to produce a sequel, and Carolco Pictures. Given that Hemdale was then experiencing financial problems, Arnold Schwarzenegger urged Mario Kassar, head of Carolco, to bid for the rights: ""I reminded Mario that this is something that we've been looking for four years, and that it should be him that should go all-out, no matter what it takes to make this deal."" Carolco eventually paid Hemdale $5 million for the franchise in 1990, resolving"
"Eric Louzil Eric Louzil (born September 1, 1952) is an American low-budget film director and producer. Louzil began his career as a UCLA film student, when he served as associate producer of the short film ""Sonic Boom"" starring Ricky Nelson, George Kennedy, Sal Mineo and Keith Moon in 1975. He soon made a career for himself as a low-budget producer and later director, most notably for infamous independent film company Troma. His early productions ""Sizzle Beach, U.S.A."" (aka ""Malibu Hot Summer"") and ""Shadows Run Black"" are notable as the first two films to feature film star Kevin Costner. Louzil also"
"from the heyday of the exploitation era, Troma Pictures, founded in 1974. Troma's most characteristic productions, including ""Class of Nuke 'Em High"" (1986), ""Redneck Zombies"" (1986), and ""Surf Nazis Must Die"" (1987), take exploitation for an absurdist spin. Troma also built on another B-studio tradition: re-releasing the often embarrassing early films of actors turning into major stars. In 1986, the company acquired and distributed two unreleased films, ""Sizzle Beach U.S.A."" (shot in 1974) and ""Shadows Run Black"" (shot in 1981), capitalizing on performances by Kevin Costner, who had recently appeared in the popular ""Silverado"" (1985) and was set to headline"
"was still forced to follow in his father's footsteps as a street seller to make ends meet, selling ""fake perfume and jewellery on street corners"" according to Statham. He made small appearances in a few music videos, including ""Comin' On"" by The Shamen in 1993, ""Run to the Sun"" by Erasure in 1994, and ""Dream a Little Dream of Me"" by The Beautiful South in 1995. While working as a model for French Connection, he was introduced to fledgling British director Guy Ritchie who was developing a film project and needed to fill the role of a street-wise con artist."
"in part on a script by Joe Eszterhas. The film was the first in a three-picture deal between Van Damme and Columbia Pictures and his fee was $3.5 million. Columbia said the film is ""true to his audience and goes beyond his audience."" However it was a box office disappointment. More successful was ""Hard Target"" (1993) for Universal, the first American film from director John Woo. In the film he stars as Chance Boudreaux, an out-of-work Cajun merchant seaman who saves a young woman, named Natasha Binder (Yancy Butler), from a gang of thugs in New Orleans. Chance learns that"
"reminiscent of the 1960s ""Batman"" series. The Complete DVD boxed set released on February 22, 2005 contains uncensored versions with a new opening theme replacing the original Kid Rock song. In 2003, ex-stripper Janet Clover, a.k.a. ""Jazz"", a.k.a. ""Stripperella"", filed a lawsuit in the Daytona Beach, Florida circuit court against Viacom, Stan Lee, and Pamela Anderson, claiming she is Stripperella's true creator and Stan Lee stole her idea when she discussed it during a lap dance. Clover filed the original suit herself without an attorney as she said she couldn't afford the $6,000 lawyer fee. The lawsuit attracted the attention"
"stated in an interview, his ""financial situation got so bad he was sleeping on a friend's floor and his car was a closet for his clothes."" Mark began selling drugs and even became a pimp to fund his music career and to maintain a certain image around those he aspired to become like in the industry. Between the years 2004-2008 Bizzle released 'L.A.V. Mixtapes' Volume's 1-5 in Southern California. He then released 'Dirty West Mixtapes' 1 and 2 with 360 Records in Houston, Texas, and returned to California to release his biggest yet, 'Certified Mixtape'. In 2005 he was offered"
"a script. Joe Dante was briefly pursued as a director. The project was shut down due to conflicts with Universal Studios. David Brown later said that the studio attitude was that a spoof would have been a mistake and that it would be like ""fouling in your own nest. We should have fouled the nest. It would have been golden, maybe even platinum."" Alan Landsburg bought the rights to produce the film. He attempted to involve experimental filmmaker Murray Lerner in ""Jaws 3"", telling him that people at the Marineland theme park in Florida had seen his 1978 3D film"
"a holding company called the Lone Cypress Company. Isutani was investigated by the FBI in the early 1990s for money laundering. Isutani's $341M loss taken on the sale of Pebble Beach was cited as an example. In 1999 the Pebble Beach Company was acquired from Lone Cypress by an investor group led by Clint Eastwood, Arnold Palmer, and Peter Ueberroth. In 2000, the company initiated Measure A, a controversial development proposal. Eastwood appeared in a legal and advertising campaign urging voters to pass MeasureA. In 2006, the plan went before the California Coastal Commission for approval. On June 14, 2007,"
"Sandwich World in Denver, CO which was purchased and later became Quiznos. An association with Tom Hulett of Concerts West led to his becoming a leading concert promoter in the 1980s producing such acts as The Beach Boys, Huey Lewis and the News, America, The Eagles and many other top acts of the era. He took control of National Video Industries in New York City in 1991 producing music videos, documentaries, short films and commercials including ""A Great Day in Harlem"" [4] which was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary. In 2001, he returned to Texas to look"
"the next two years, Earl met Bryan Kestner, with whom he had a shared vision of music, movies, and sports transcending language and other barriers. Planet Hollywood was opened in late 1991 in New York City, blocks from Hard Rock Cafe. Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sylvester Stallone, Bruce Willis, Demi Moore and Whoopi Goldberg were some of the actors who became investors/promoters. In mid-1992, Peter Morton, a co-founder of Hard Rock Cafe, co-owner of Hard Rock Licensing Corporation and owner and CEO of Hard Rock Cafe America, sued Rank and Earl for trade secrets appropriation. With the restaurant a success and the"
"against TriStar Pictures and Walt Disney Pictures, since both studios were also trying to make a Huckleberry Finn movie. Disney eventually succeeded over Fox and TriStar following the completion of ""The Adventures of Huck Finn"" (1993). In 1992, it was reported that Hughes would write and produce a live action adaptation of Charles M. Schulz's ""Peanuts"" for Warner Bros. Hughes reportedly visited Schulz at his home in Santa Clara, California to talk about adapting ""Peanuts"" into a film. According to ""Variety"", Hughes planned to start writing the script on Christmas of 1992 and finish it by the spring of 1993;"
"Zyzzyx Road Zyzzyx Road ( ), also called Zyzzyx Rd., is a 2006 American thriller film written, produced and directed by John Penney and starring Katherine Heigl, Leo Grillo, and Tom Sizemore. The film gained notoriety from its gross ticket sales of only $30 on its opening run, due to its intentionally-limited release at a single cinema, making it possibly the lowest-grossing film in U.S. history in terms of box office sales. Grant is a philandering accountant who goes to Las Vegas on a business trip and encounters a seductress named Marissa and her jealous ex-boyfriend, Joey. Grant and Marissa"
"and his family left New York and returned to Los Angeles, setting on Union Avenue. In summer 1988, he appeared as a hitman in Robert Dornhelm's film ""Cold Feet"", filmed in Gallatin National Forest. Waits hated when musicians allowed companies to use their songs in advertising; he said that ""artists who take money for ads poison and pervert their songs"". In November 1988 he brought a lawsuit against Frito-Lay for using an actor imitating his voice to advertise their Salsa Rio Doritos; it came to court in April 1990 and in 1992 Waits won. He received a $2.6 million settlement,"
"Confused, Fleinhardt asks who said that, to which Granger replies: ""Bodhi...Patrick Swayze?...from ""Point Break...?"""" Alcon Entertainment and Warner Bros. released a remake of the film in 2015 entitled ""Point Break"", which received mostly negative reviews. Point Break Point Break is a 1991 American buddy cop action crime thriller film directed by Kathryn Bigelow, starring Patrick Swayze, Keanu Reeves, Lori Petty and Gary Busey. The title refers to the surfing term ""point break,"" where a wave breaks as it hits a point of land jutting out from the coastline. Reeves stars as rookie FBI agent Johnny Utah, who is investigating a"
"22nd highest grossing motion picture of all time in the United States. Subsequent Disney films such as ""Pocahontas"", ""The Hunchback of Notre Dame"", ""Hercules"", ""Mulan"" and ""Tarzan"" were box office and critical successes as well, albeit modestly so when compared to Disney's early-1990s releases. In 1994, the death of Disney President and Chief Operating Officer Frank Wells, and the departure of studio chairman Jeffrey Katzenberg to co-found DreamWorks, left Michael Eisner in full control of the company. At the turn of the century, films such as """", ""Treasure Planet"", and ""Home on the Range"" failed to meet the critical and"
"South Beach (1993 TV series) South Beach is an American action/adventure series that aired on NBC during the summer of 1993. The series was created by Dick Wolf and Robert DeLaurentis and starred Yancy Butler, who had been the lead actress a year earlier in another failed Wolf/DeLaurentis series, ""Mann & Machine"". Set in South Beach, Florida, the ""Modesty Blaise""-inspired storyline had Butler playing Kate Patrick, a thief who, along with her partner Vernon, is given the choice of going to jail or working for a government agency run by a man named Roberts (played by John Glover). The series"
"names including Michael Morrison. He also produced and directed over 100 films with his own production company Chandler Studios during the 1980s and 1990s. Ingley as Morrison was inducted into the X-Rated Critics Organization Hall of Fame in 1993 as a ""Film Pioneer."" In 1997, Ingley obtained a copy of an intimate video tape stolen from the home of Tommy and Pamela Anderson Lee and sold copies from the web site www.pamlee.com. The Lees sued Ingley and obtained a court injunction ordering him to stop selling the video. Ingley lived in Amsterdam from 1997 to 2004. He moved to Texas"
"to Sidney Sheinberg, the CEO and president of MCA/Universal Pictures. Shortly after, Universal decided to purchase the property as an opportunity to showcase its new sound system technology, Sensurround, which debuted with the disaster film, ""Earthquake"" for Kong's roars. On April 5, 1975, Daniel O'Shea, a semi-attorney for RKO-General, had arranged meetings with Arnold Stane, attorney for MCA/Universal, and De Laurentiis and Sidewater for the film rights to ""King Kong""; neither side knew that a rival studio were in negotiation. With a bargain price set $150,000, Stane had negotiated an offer of $200,000 plus 5 percent of the film's net"
"Zuma Beach (film) Zuma Beach is a 1978 American made-for-television comedy film written and directed by Lee H. Katzin and starring Suzanne Somers. A fading rock singer goes to the beach to get away from it all and winds up getting involved in the lives of the teenage beachgoers. Suzanne Somers' fame was rising due to the success of the sitcom ""Three's Company"", and she wanted to star in movies. Albeit a lightweight television film, ""Zuma Beach"" provided Somers with her first starring movie role. John Carpenter wrote the script for a producer ""who just said he wanted a beach"
"on some of the biggest FX films and other projects of the mid 90's. In 1997 he wrote, produced and directed his first feature film called ""Bus"" shot entirely in a Santa Monica City Bus in west Los Angeles. The film won gold at the Houston Film Festival. In 1998 he started work in the commercial/music video business working with acts like Madonna, Michael Jackson, Busta Rhymes, TLC, No Doubt, Jay-Z, Jennifer Lopez, Puffy, Nas, Beyonce, A Tribe called Quest, Will Smith as well as commercials for Coca-Cola, Gap, Nike, Reebok and many more. This work led to him directing"
"and then moved on to writing, directing and producing. He earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of Pennsylvania in 1995 where he was a member of the Alpha Epsilon Pi fraternity and The Mask and Wig Club. Lieberman was Senior Vice President for International Finance at the production company Hyde Park Entertainment, which produced and co-financed films such as ""Anti-Trust"", ""Bandits"" and ""Moonlight Mile"". Lieberman established himself at the international sales and distribution company Summit Entertainment, where he progressed thanks to championing the independent film ""Memento"" and acquiring the rights to ""American Pie"". In 1999, Lieberman was"
"the gross. Warner Bros. and Tim Burton, Columbia Pictures and Richard Donner, and 20th Century Fox and Joe Dante bid for the rights, but Universal Studios eventually acquired them in May 1990 for Spielberg. After completing ""Hook"", Spielberg wanted to film ""Schindler's List"". Sid Sheinberg, president of Music Corporation of America (then Universal Pictures' parent company) gave the green light to ""Schindler's List"" on the condition Spielberg make ""Jurassic Park"" first. He said later by choosing a creature-driven thriller, ""I was really just trying to make a good sequel to ""Jaws"", on land."" To create the dinosaurs, Spielberg thought of"
"venture between Gordon and JVC. As the company's chairman and chief executive officer, Gordon was responsible for the production of such films as ""Point Break"" (1991), starring Patrick Swayze and Keanu Reeves; ""The Super"" (1991), starring Joe Pesci; ""Unlawful Entry"" (1992), starring Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta and Madeleine Stowe; ""Used People"" (1992), starring Shirley MacLaine, Jessica Tandy, Kathy Bates, Marcia Gay Harden and Marcello Mastroianni; and ""Timecop"" (1994), starring Jean-Claude Van Damme. Largo also co-financed and handled the foreign distribution of the acclaimed 1992 biopic ""Malcolm X"", directed by Spike Lee and starring Denzel Washington in the title role. In"
"was a film buff and wanted to move into film producing. Zugsmith formed American Pictures Corporation, along with Peter Miller, Aubrey Wisberg and Jack Pollexfen They planned to make six films a year for five years out of a fund of $3.5 million. Their films included ""Captive Women"" (1952); ""Invasion, U.S.A."" (1952); ""Sword of Venus"" (1953), a swashbuckler; ""Port Sinister"" (1953); and ""Paris Model"" (1953), a comedy. He also produced ""Top Banana"" (1954) with Phil Silvers. Zugsmith's success saw him receive a long term contract at Universal. While there he produced ""Female on the Beach"" (1955), a melodrama with Joan"
"also rejected. It was not until halfway through filming that ""Point Break"" became the film's title because of its relevance to surfing. Reeves and Swayze had appeared together once before, in the 1986 film ""Youngblood."" Reeves liked the name of his character, as it reminded him of star athletes like Johnny Unitas and Joe Montana. He described his character as a ""total control freak and the ocean beats him up and challenges him. After a while everything becomes a game...He becomes as amoral as any criminal. He loses the difference between right and wrong."" Swayze felt that Bodhi was a"
"basketball and graduated in 1987. He wanted to attend the United States Naval Academy but was denied three times. He then enrolled at Bellevue College, where he played college basketball. A foot injury in his second year put an end to his dream of becoming an NBA player, and he transferred to the University of Washington, where he turned his focus to acting and became a member of the Sigma Chi fraternity. Caviezel began acting in plays in Seattle. He earned his Screen Actors Guild card with a minor role in the 1991 film ""My Own Private Idaho"". He then"
"It just wasn't something anyone really wanted to get involved with."" In 1998, the project was taken over by Franchise Pictures, a recently established company whose head, Elie Samaha, a former dry cleaning mogul turned nightclub owner, specialized in rescuing stars' pet projects. Franchise sought out stars whose projects were stalled at the major studios, bringing them aboard at reduced salaries. Samaha's approach made waves in Hollywood, earning him a reputation of being able to produce star vehicles more cheaply than the larger studios. His unorthodox deals raised eyebrows and the entertainment industry magazine ""Variety"" commented that they were ""often"
"to the big screen. A year later, when ""Whiplash"" earned five Oscar nominations at the 87th Academy Awards, including Best Picture, and grossed nearly $50 million worldwide off a $3.3 million production budget, Chazelle and his project began to attract attention from studios. Five years after Chazelle wrote the script, Summit Entertainment and Black Label Media, along with producer Marc Platt, agreed to invest in ""La La Land"" and distribute it. They had been impressed by the critical and commercial success of ""Whiplash."" Lionsgate's Patrick Wachsberger, who previously had worked on the ""Step Up"" franchise, pushed Chazelle to increase the"